Age Quotes - Page 117

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.

Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don't have to do all the intricate fancy steps that happen to be in vogue. All you have to do is be a good average dancer, and anybody who spends the time and effort can accomplish this.

Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

This is not an age in which to be a soft Christian.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.

Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed artifacts - but for me they are these incredible sites of negotiation.

I prefer being able to see my opponent. It is just different for me; I didn't grow up with the internet age really.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components.

Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there’s no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain--and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.

Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.

No one can take advantage of you without your permission.

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.